Weevilive [Live]

Bollweevils | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 22, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Dr. Strange Records
• ASIN: B000001XCK
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #594,262 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars B for Brillant, July 21, 2001

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NATON "ndep22" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weevilive (Audio CD)

The Bollweevils are brillant. This excellent release captures these Chicago natives during an intense live show. Sound is top quality without a scratch and the bass is really heavy. These guys are blessed to have a great vocalist. There are periodic breaks between and during the songs: Security beating up the kids, fans fighting, and band stops. The sixteen songs here, show you how a great live show should be:Intense,Raw,and Fun. Finale is a fanTastic song.

4.0 out of 5 stars Forget Suzy... This Album's the Bollweevils' Revenge, April 11, 2007

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Dave Id (Flagstaff, Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weevilive (Audio CD)

A live set taken from near the end of the Bollweevils reign in the summer of 1995. The jacket art from the cover all the way down to the spine is an homage, parody, or just a plain swipe (whichever you prefer) of the Misfits' classic live album "Evilive." I dig all the songs here, classic Bollweevils. Like the live versions of most every rock song, it's nice to hear interpretations as performed in front of an audience, though the tunes are not as good as the studio versions appearing on the regular releases.

The most jarring point in the recording is the tracks "Bring Back Paul" and "The Fight!" capturing the band's comments and show-goer reaction to an altercation between friends of the band and the venue's bouncers. With no visual reference, the listener can't tell how bad the bouncers were roughing people up, but I don't think this is necessarily like the final scenes at Altamont Speedway in "Gimmie Shelter" either.

I also wouldn't be able to say of this is the Bollweevils at their best or their tightest live, but I suspect that this particular performance was chosen for the record, as it were, as the band's way of undercutting the credibility of the Metro and its then management for the disruption of the band's music and the audience's enjoyment of said music.

As the liner notes indicate the Metro would declare the Bollweevils banned for life after the show, even though vocalist Daryl states in no uncertain terms that due to the incidents they would never play there again anyway. Clearly you`ve got bridges being burned by both parties, and releasing "Evilive" gives the Bollweevils the last word on the subject.

Remember, this is the band's presentation of the evidence, but it is just their side of the story, while the other side doesn`t even get a rebuttal let alone a chance to tell their version of things; and the court of public opinion unfortunately doesn't always weigh matters equally.

Underground politics, scene rivalries, and reputation slandering aside, this is the Bollweevils and their live cuts are worth checking out, but I wonder what shows documenting the band at their tightest wound up in a metal can somewhere because we had to have the live recordings documenting that the Metro shouldn't have messed with the band or their friends.